:) By the way your stress on avoiding to store the pswd in any readable disk file really made me look at my problem and possible solutions from a whole new perspective...
Cheers ! -aman -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 February 2004 21:53 To: Thind, Aman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to su in a script if su needs a pswd ? >>>>> "Aman" == Thind, Aman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Aman> I pass through the else block as you had earlier answered to one Joe Aman> Catanzaro though his question was strikingly similar to mine. I just find it odd that nobody asks a question like that for at least six months in my recollection, and then it pops up twice within two days in two different similar forums. So shoot me. :) More often than not, it's someone who is interested in wasting a lot of free resources. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>